How to tell Jackson to ignore a field during serialization if its value is null?

Question

How can Jackson be configured to ignore a field value during serialization if that field\'s value is null.

For example:

public class SomeClass {
            


        

Answer 1

If you want to add this rule to all models in Jackson 2.6+ use:

mapper.setSerializationInclusion(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL);